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| Another odd little sidebar brought to the light of day by the folks at EM, featuring UK postpunk everywoman Brenda Ray singing and contributing her own tracks to a set of heavy roots rhythms provided by Roy Cousins. Brenda's overdubs on these tracks were laid in the late 90s and 00s, but the rhythms originate from apparently earlier sessions Cousins cut in Jamaica, and feature a heavyweight roster that includes just about every Kingston musician anyone could hope to have featured in their rhythm section, from Family Man Barrett and Sly & Robbie to Horsemouth Wallace and Ranchie McLean. Ray wisely doesn't try to put on a rootsy hat, but offers up her own style of mellow breathy vocals, and keeps the overdubs complimentary too, so in the end the album's more of a fusion of deep rootsy tracks and modern UK pop. 17 numbers in all, including 'Starlight", "D-I-Z-Z-E-E", "Sweet Sweet Wine", "Lend A Helping Hand", 'Hearts Entwine", "Another Dream", "Everybody's Talking" and "Keep On Rollin".
Certainly the most unusual reggae album ever made. August Pablo, King Tubby, Asha Puthli with Ornette Coleman, Lonnie Liston Smith & Pharoah Sanders -- very disturbing slices of psycho-dub/doo-wop/jazz-fusion/exotica music. Her breathy Chordettes meets Susan Cadgan vocals, multi-tracked whisperings about inter-galactic Bluebeat starlights over what sounds like a modulated cut of heavy rhythm. Brenda Ray will be familiar to observers of the Liverpool scene as part of the NAFFI organisation through the '80s, also fame as Brenda & The Beachballs. Over the past years, together with cohort Sir Freddie Viadukt (aka the Minister of Noise), she has been aiding and abetting the reggae producer Roy Cousins, once of The Royals, in his program of remastering and reissuing selections from his Tamoki Wambesi imprint. Cousins suggested she record an album using original roots reggae tracks from original tapes. The whole album overdubbed/played/recorded/mixed between 1995-2005 at NAFFI Studios. Everything was done by herself except the final mix-down with Sir Freddie. The cover photo has Brenda in a pose between Pharoah Sanders' Thembi and Augustus Pablo's East of the River Nile with melodica pointed towards the water. |
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Brenda Ray (vocals, harmonies, melodica, keys, koto, pixiphone, chimes, claves, bells, reverse cymbal, cowbell, ashtray, clavinet, xylophone, cabassa, triangle, flexaphone, tambourine, vibraslap, stream sample, scraper, whistle) |
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